Ordensspange belonged to a Bavarian General

[Claudius]

maybe....maybe that photo alone could convince a wealthy collector to keep the whole set together.

That photo is just outstanding when paired with the awards on the auction block.

Forgive the romanticizing, but one could almost imagine von Zoellner -after attending his 60th Jubilee -never having the occasion to wear his awards again. The awards sat like in a time-capsule.

[Elmar Lang]

I agree with you: the best thing would be to keep the group together: orders and papers. The picture (here, an enlargement) , as previously said, v. Zoellner's last public appearance in Sept. 1944. He was already very ill (see how "oversize" his uniform appears to be...) and died in March 1945.

From what I've been able to know, after his Military Jubilee he almost never went out of home, except on air-raid alarms, due to his failing health. After the funeral, all orders were arranged in a frame and, saved from the last air raids, remained at his heirs' home until the date when it was decided to offer the group in auction.

Best wishes,

E.L.

Edited June 7, 2011 by Elmar Lang

[VtwinVince]

Please, someone with deep pockets needs to keep this stuff together for posterity.

[Elmar Lang]

Yesterday, Gen. von Zoellner's group has found a new, caring home.

It was won in auction with a bid on the whole group, winning on the sum of all single bids.

In my opinion, this is how it should have ended. The heirs of the General are happy knowing that the military memories of their ancestor won't be divided.

Best wishes,

E.L.

[kapten_windu]

Wow, who's that gentleman? :o

[Wild Card]

Yesterday, Gen. von Zoellner's group has found a new, caring home.

It was won in auction with a bid on the whole group, winning on the sum of all single bids.

In my opinion, this is how it should have ended. The heirs of the General are happy knowing that the military memories of their ancestor won't be divided.

Best wishes,

E.L.

This is great news!

The auction house is to be complimented for presenting a bidding format

under which this could be done. :cheers:

[Deruelle]

Great news indeed. Is he a member of this forum ?

Christophe

[freiherr]

A younger and hardly recognizable Zoellner

Cheers

Freiherr

[Elmar Lang]

The photo posted by Freiherr depicts v. Zoellner early in in 1917, while the one posted by me is v. Zoellner's last public appearance in September 1944 for his 60th military jubilee. As said, he was already very ill. I consider that image, in its historical context, as very touching.

Best wishes,

Elmar Lang

[Claudio]

Dear all,

I am quite happy that I controlled my temptation to bid on the medal bar only. It's quite a relief to hear that this group will be kept all together (for how long we don't know...). Collectors are merely temporary holder of history and if we can't work out a deal to keep such groups also after our passing (like O'Connor with his collection given to the technical museum in Berlin to be shown in a special exhibition), well chances are that most of these wonderful pieces of military history will simply disappear.

Can we know either the ending price of the whole group or of the single pieces? I tried to find it on the website, without success.

ciao,

Claudio